Lauren Bacall, actress from the golden era of Hollywood, died this … – By Day (Texas)

New York – “Anybody got a match” was the first dialogue of Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not by Howard Hawks, and since then captives moviegoers have been desperately searched for a match this lady.

Bacall, who died Tuesday in New York at age 89, seemed to live in black and white. Its elegant sensuality emerged as an appearance of the shadows of film noir of the 40s, with a leopard eyes glowing in the darkness and a deep voice that emanated wisdom that went beyond his years.

And what a way to start. Bacall came as a fully formed goddess of the big screen in “To Have and Have Not, 1944 Just was 19, less than half the age of Bogart and Hawks had found a model (his wife Slim Hawks, I saw in a magazine). Bacall was already up to Bogart: it was not just his girl, but such a dominant presence like his. The film Bacall promoted as “the only kind of woman for that kind of man.”

“It’s a beautiful chick,” Bogart once said. “They fall in love with it like everyone else.”

He fell in love. All fell in love. When Bacall as Slim in “To Have and Have Not, Bogart’s character left for one night, was recorded in the history of cinema.

” You do not have to say or do anything. Nothing at all, “he said almost purring. “Oh, maybe just whistle. Do you know how to whistle, do not you, Steve? Only lips together and blow. “

Bogart, dumbfounded, found love with Bacall in the film. Their romance, perhaps the most fabled in Hollywood, lasted over 12 years until his death. Bacall put a gold whistle in the urn of the actor with the inscription. “If you need anything, just whistle”

After his debut, one of the most fascinating and more poise on the screen, Bacall continued with a series of memorable films. Few actors have emerged from such a resonant mode. Labyrinthine story co-written by William Faulkner The Big Sleep, the film Dark Passage perspective changes, and tape black stormy film Key Largo, John Huston

Bacall starred with Bogart in all, creating a rare personal and professional society. Their romance is stretched to the screen. In The Big Sleep (directed again by Hawks) had again had hot talks. In a famous scene, flirted with double meanings horse racing

Bogart. “Have some class, but do not know how far you can get”

Bacall. “It depends much of who holds the reins. “

His marriage, as speculated after Bacall was not good for his career. Although recalled that the time Bogart was the happiest of his life, did no more than one film a year and distanced work mode Hawks, who molded his stars. A Bacal told him he should keep the grave and quietly.

After Bogart’s death in 1957, Bacall made some notable movies like 1957 Designing Woman and Death on the Orient Express 1974 It was a of the last great stars of Hollywood’s golden era, and in recent years had some unexpected roles, as a violent cameo in The Sopranos series. He also earned a National Book Award for his autobiography By Myself, two Tony Awards and an Oscar nomination, at age 71. In 2009 he received an honorary Oscar.

But it was the black and white movies where Bacall, nicknamed “The look” shone. In many ways it was our last link to a bygone Hollywood era in which the films were illuminated to create sumptuous shades and dialogues were twinkling. Bacall Either way, a match that shone freshly lit, had few peers.